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Thursday, August 5th, 1999 Download PDF
It is no secret that public opinion drives policy. But it is a national scandal when those describing themselves and presenting themselves to legislators and the public as “scientists” abandon their ethical responsibilities to scientific method by subscribing to and recommending policy that is inconsistent with their own findings of fact.
Dairy Compacts Set Poor Trade Precedent
Sunday, August 1st, 1999Dave Juday
Farm Journal Guest Viewpoint
Some dairy farmers are pursuing misguided regional compacts that could inflict further harm on struggling sectors of U.S. agriculture. Compacts set the price processors must pay for milk in a region. Already there is a compact in New England the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact (NEIDC), which dairy producers want to expand […]
Europe Engaged In A Phony War On Biotechnology
Thursday, July 15th, 1999Dennis T. Avery
EU Selfishly Hides Behind Farm Trade Barriers While Attacking
Scientific Advances In The Fight Against Hunger
CHURCHVILLE, Va.–Europe’s govern-ments, after frightening their own consumers about the safest food supply in world history, are now making a huge effort to share their food panic with the rest of the world.
They are doing this for shabby political […]
Infantile Methemoglobinemia: Reexamining the Role of Drinking Water Nitrates
Wednesday, July 14th, 1999Download PDF
Ingestion of nitrates in drinking water has long been thought to be a primary cause of acquired infantile methemoglobinemia, often called blue baby syndrome. However, recent research and a
review of historical cases offer a more complex picture of the causes of infantile methemoglobinemia.
Sour, Curdled, and Gross: How Congress got milk wrong
Monday, July 12th, 1999Dave Juday
REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION by National Review
Of all the issues that Congress deals with, perhaps none is less glamourous to members than agriculture policy. As Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) noted last year, some of his colleagues “don’t even know we passed a farm bill in 1996.” But that bill - commonly referred to as the […]
Scaring Consumers Away from Good Health
Thursday, July 1st, 1999Alex A. Avery
The Environmental Protection Agency, in its zeal to rid the world of pesticides, fails to mention the hazards of dangerous strains of food-borne pathogens that may be present in organically grown “natural” foods.
Featured at your local supermarket are unwarranted fear, innuendo and bad advice from the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA has begun […]
Bangladesh Still Floods, But No Longer Starves
Friday, June 25th, 1999Dennis T. Avery
Bangladesh Is Opening Its Doors To Industrialization And Beginning To Thrive
CHURCHVILLE, Va.–Bangladesh had the worst floods in its history last year. In other words, the country suffered its worst flooding since Noah stepped off the Ark.
Bangladesh is one of the most flood-prone countries in the world. Essentially, it’s the flood plain where two […]
Dispel myths about the danger of nitrates
Thursday, June 24th, 1999Alex A. Avery
This spring, the Register printed an editorial warning of the dangers to “infants and pregnant women” of nitrates in Des Moines’ drinking water and calling for more responsible farming to stop “the problem at the source.” While the goal of limiting nitrogen losses from farmland is sound, the editorial missed the boat on […]
Who’ll Stop The Rain?
Monday, June 21st, 1999Richard A. Halpern
Early next year, the President must submit to Congress a plan to mitigate environmental damages in the Gulf of Mexico that no one can find, and to restore economic losses to Gulf fisheries that no one has suffered. The president’s charge, under the 1998 Coast Guard Authorization Act, is to clean up […]
Wallace Institute Got it Wrong
Saturday, February 27th, 1999Center for Global Food Issues
CDC Data DOES Indicate Higher Risk from Organic and Natural Foods
On February 3rd, 1999, the Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture issued a press release (”Contrary to Avery Article, CDC Has Never Conducted Study on Risk of Organic Food”) implying that Hudson Senior Fellow Dennis Avery had made a gross […]